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The air outside... It didn't move. Only with a magical girl or equivalent entity's eyesight, Yggdrasil was the only person who noticed the dust floating in the air. Rather the dust was frozen, as if there was a table below it. But the altitude of each speck wasn't uniform, it was all over the stale air, messing with her sense of the 3 dimensions.
She stopped staring, she might accidentally draw attention by acting strange. For whatever reason, the outside is frozen but the inside persisted in normal operations. She's been seen absent mindedly gazing outside the window, that was fine. Numerous students throughout time would day dream in this manner, even if it seemed a little rude to the teacher. Her eyes lingering on the corridor was what's strange. Shifting her viewpoint couldn't be explained as day dreaming.
However, she remained calm. Her heartbeat remained steady and her expressions retained composure. Rather, it's times like this her insensitivity to emotions helps out a lot. To others, it might be described as being somewhat numb to stimulus. To her, it was her natural state. The complexities of the human mind puzzled her more, being 'normal' was strange to her.
Her understanding had certainly come a long way, but there is too vast a gap between understanding and actually feeling the nuances in emotions. The enemy was discrete, almost imperceptible. It would have to take a C grade magical girl to sense something amiss in the corridor, the lack of presences and traces of life, as if time had been frozen outside. While there are no birds at this altitude, the air around the earth inevitably caused large breezes and flowing gales.
It takes a magical girl to feel something amissed... The other 2 hadn't noticed until alerted by her... Could it be..., were they testing her reaction? Were they somehow clued into Yggdrasil's existence? It should be the one piece of information they didn't have, the battle on the Calamity was under the supervision of one of the sentinels. If there was an outflow of information, it would be detected. It was impossible to tell Yggdrasil had replaced Lastia, not even Sariel found out.
What should she do? Cold sweat slid down her temple as her mind engaged deep into thought. What did they know? What were they allowed to know? If they were fishing for information, then there must be a method to monitor them. If she could be seen, her strange reactions should be obvious enough. She texted her two friends already... It was too on the spur of the moment, she hadn't thought things through and only considered the immediate danger they were in.
Just as she spent time thinking, time wouldn't stop for her.
"Lastia could you read out this passage for us, please." (Mr Adamm)
She was about to stand, but her legs felt a little weak after all that mental exertion. She pressed both palms on the tablet's surface, smoothly propping herself up. She flipped to the right page, her mind still wrapped in unrelated matters. Hesitation would be her downfall, the enemy has sent danger heading her way into their school. In the first place, the fact that there is an attack meant that they already had some preliminary information.
"The duck hadn't foreseen, for which it knew not. An inexplicable tumble of the highest degree, the household collapses." (Yggdrasil)
Covert, it snuck this close without detection. Deliberate, it chose the middle of lesson time. Ill-natured, the dilemma of revealing a magical girl's identity is forced upon oneself. That's why, at this very moment she knocked twice on the table. The windows shattered as her eyes were glued to her book, the pages cupped her chin as it held close to her jaw. She turned her eyes to the side, observing what had happened as the glass flew pass the air. A couple shards hit the book, and one cut the back of hand holding the book.
'Cover me when I signal, I'll grab everyone's attention.' (Lastia)
It was the text she had just sent. Regardless of the enemy's intention, she will manipulate Eterna's laws that protect magical girl identities. By merely displacing their attention a bit, the other 2 could transform under all that chaos and deal with the situation in her stead. It was an efficient course of action that they had to take as long as they wanted to protect lives. There was no alternative from the start.
Yggdrasil had to wonder now, we're they able to read her mind? With everything falling into place this well, she must assume the opponent had been reading her mental state and desired to take advantage of it. She was calm now, she could see Sariel who had already transformed, before her very eyes that sight gives the most reassurance, her calming back and her poised approaching fist. Right, this is a second chance to think things through.
Sariel has transformed, her abilities are easiest to identify so she's sent out first. They likely already have a bit of information on us, preserving the other 2 which are harder to crack is more important. Once more, trace back the trail of thoughts. Do they know their abilities? What are their intentions? A hidden enemy, it can be used for both ambushing to reduce numbers, and testing to see if the opponents had the ability to resist.
The most horrifying thought would be that the enemies have these creatures set loose in every residential zone. It meant that they are an insignificant one of many, and that the opponent had an army of fearsome creatures at their disposal. She can't help the whole earth, that's out of her capabilities...
Sariel punches through the air, a trace of blood could be seen spilling onto the ground. The enemy wasn't dead, in fact tit was still invisible. At the very least, she'll help her friends here survive. Everyone's attention had latched onto Sariel. Now was the time for her to transform.
"Trans... Form!!" (Yggdrasil)
A single brilliant light flashed the classroom as quickly as a camera's flash. Before the light faded, she was already at the front. If the enemy will remain hidden...
She crouched down, her great sword primed and drawn back. With a single swing that no one's eyes could follow, she tore a single line through the classroom wall while avoiding Sariel's legs. She sliced horizontally at a very low angle, the pressure of her blade phased through the corridor and split the stale air apart. Blood appeared in mid air, as if poofing into existence. It was an inexplicable sight, like an invisible fountain that spilled blood had just been turn on. The contours of the monster were highlighted by the opaque flowing blood. It was certainly hideous, it had a fat slug like body that was as tall as the corridor, and it was as wide as the main classroom door.
Numerous tentacle like apendages with sharp bonish claws at the ends, lay flaccid and flattened on the ground. Yggdrasil looked towards Sariel and spoke.
"... Take us away." (Yggdrasil)
A swift operation. Right as their locations shifted, they released their transformations and none of the blood or mangled mess was left. The cognitive block that protects magical girl identities will have some busy work today...